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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since the collapse of Estes Kefauver's 1952 bid for the presidential nomination, some political dopesters have been predicting that he might lose his seat in the Senate. Such predictions neatly fitted the plans of third-term Tennessee Congressman Pat Sutton of Lawrenceburg (pop. 5,500), who this year entered the lists against Kefauver in the Democratic primary...
...next outburst came in the oil town of Petit jean (pop. 70,000). The rumor (entirely false) had got about that Ben Youssef had escaped from Madagascar and was on his way home. A mob collected, and in half-patriotic, half-religious frenzy, turned on Jewish shopkeepers, killing six and burning their bodies...
...crowded House of Representatives in Canberra, Prime Minister Robert Menzies proclaimed last week that Australia (pop. 7,500,000) would stand behind U.S. policy in Asia. "Armed aggression must be met by armed defensive power," said Menzies, "for this is something, and perhaps at present the only thing, that the materialist Communist dictators can and will understand . . . The time has come when we must present a common front backed by a common power...
...Gorges. From Skardu (pop. 2,000), ancient capital of Baltistan. they moved north to a valley where the slow ascent began. Week after week, they toiled upwards in a climate where a bareheaded man with his feet in the shade can get sunstroke and frostbite simultaneously. They bounced across torrents on inflated goatskin rafts, threaded their way through gorges whose walls rose sheer to pinnacles two miles above them. In May they left behind the last green spikes of living vegetation, and entered into a land where no birds sing. In their faces was a biting wind, boring relentlessly down...
Mainland papers recently smuggled out to Hong Kong indicated, however, that several million farmland acres were flood ed along the central Yangtze valley, that the 98-ft. dikes at Wuhan (pop. 1,000,-000), the tri-city of Hankow, Hanyang-and Wuchang, were under heavy pressure. Last month the Communists finally admitted that 600,000 "flood fighters" had been rounded up to work on the Yangtze dikes-more than 100,000 of them inside Hankow, where Red loudspeakers blared stirring martial music and Communist propaganda pep talks...